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Chapter 225 - 206 Valves

Chapter 225: Chapter 206 Valves

Zijing couldn’t help saying, "What are you talking about?"

Li Cheng grinned and said, "The Zijing from Group C used Telekinesis Arrows to commit suicide by blowing her own head off, and my teammate Zijing from Group A took her Telekinesis Arrows to confront Cliff, only to have him snap two of her Telekinesis Arrows.

So here’s the question: if both Telekinesis Arrows were destroyed, where did C Zijing get her arrows from?

There is only one answer, C Zijing is you from the future, Groups C and B are the same.

We in the bushes are repeating in a loop, always in an ABABAB pattern.

The A Zijing on my team is most likely already dead.

And you from Group B, as well as Catherine from Group B, will survive to the next cycle and evolve into a C form.

In the next cycle, you’ll kill Catherine from Group B who tried to signal us, kill the Driver from Group A, steal the Task Battery from Group A, and charge the desiccated Mithril with it to wake him up, and then you too will commit suicide.

Remember? In the AB pattern, Mithril is always charged twice, regaining his Level 15 strength.

He has cultivated both the Spirit Prophecy system and the Spirit Enchantment System and can mind-control any Transcendent of a lower Level than himself.

Even if he is reset during the loop, you, who are under mind control, can still carry out orders, just like Cliff being controlled by this nail."

Li Cheng twirled the Slave Master’s Nail in his hand and calmly said, "If I’m not mistaken, including the fate of the Mercury Alloy Guild, it’s all a lie.

The once Level 30 Mithril, with the ability of the Spirit Prophecy system, couldn’t possibly fail to predict the grave danger here and lead his teammates into it.

He was fully aware of the existence of temporal flux and time loops, but was willing to take the risk to lift the Corpse Net Curse.

I even dare say, he foresaw that our squad would enter this place a year later in the real world and resurrect him with the Task Battery.

Once he has accumulated enough power, he will rise from the dead, fully regaining his original strength."

"Where’s the evidence?" Zijing from Group B asked gravely, "What evidence do you have?"

"The evidence is this."

Li Cheng took out a prophecy painting, depicting himself standing amidst the bushes, while below him lay the dismembered limbs of Midnight Howl, Mendoza, and others, as well as that Task Battery.

Before him stood the blood-covered Red Driver and Zijing.

The two, with fierce expressions, were jointly thrusting an alloy arrow into Li Cheng’s own chest.

"Even in death, I look handsome in this painting," said Li Cheng. "When I first saw it, I thought that you all couldn’t handle my constant joking and decided to fight back."

Gray Rain muttered softly, "Found the little joker, @big Ant."

"Now looking at this painting, it really hasn’t depicted it wrong. It’s just that it’s not the A-cycle me in the painting, but the B-cycle me."

Li Cheng smiled unchanged, "While I was leading Cliff away, the following sequence of events probably happened in the mud pit:

Zijing from Group A found the people from Group B, led them back to the mud pit, and charged the Task Battery to Mithril, bringing him back to Level 15 strength.

Mithril lashed out, using the power of the Spirit Enchantment System to control both Zijing from Groups A and B, Bandage Man from Group A, Catherine from Group A, the Driver from Group B, and Midnight Howl from Group B.

Maybe he was not powerful enough, Mithril couldn’t control both me from Group B and Catherine from Group B.

Catherine fled into the bushes, while I from Group B fought fiercely against you all, killing the Driver from Group B, Midnight Howl from Group B, and Zijing from Group A, and perhaps even severely injuring Mithril himself, leaving him immobile and trapped in the mud pit.

That’s why there was blood from the B Group Driver on Bandage Man.

As for Gray Rain from Group B, she’s probably like those Pocket Monsters from the Group A Driver, collected into a Pet Egg and therefore absent."

Li Cheng paused for a moment and chuckled: "As for why I’m so certain that the B-cycle me can take on many and deliver a heavy blow to Mithril.

It’s of course because I am that strong, no matter the cycle, standing out like a firefly in the night, impossible to hide."

His boastful words brought a momentary stillness to the atmosphere.

Zijing from Group B calmly said, "After all is said and done, what can you change?

The existence of the AB cycles proves that all this is in vain.

Mithril, being different from the melee-focused Cliff, as a Level 15 Spirit Power User, will ultimately be able to find you, kill you, and restart the cycle."

This dialogue has been repeated countless times."

"No no no, you got one thing wrong."

Li Cheng waves his hand and says, "The grass itself has the trait of isolating energy, which means that you are not currently under the direct remote control of Mithril, but rather executing the instruction program given by Mithril.

Therefore, Mithril will never know from the beginning to the end that there is another way to end the loop.

A more direct way."

He beckons with his palm and pulls a stone slab out of the void.

[Achili Toy Factory Key③]

This Stone Slab Key, related to the Achili phone booths that are spread across the killing field, is the most mysterious item Li Cheng possesses.

If there was anything on Li Cheng that could withstand the chaotic flow of time, it was it.

Holding the stone slab, he turns and throws it to the right of the pipe.

Whoosh—

The Stone Slab Key flies towards the pipe, passing through the ferocious refinement of the time anomaly, disintegrating a large amount of dust on its surface, but the stone slab itself remains intact, precisely wedged in the gap of the pipe.

The golden energy flow stutters, from the original torrential stream, it shrinks to a trickling faucet.

Now is the time.

Accompanied by Li Cheng’s shout of "combine," the absolutely trusting Gray Rain rushes over and transforms into armor.

The two are like travelers in a sandstorm, passing through the thin time anomaly, their hands firmly gripping the valve on the right side of the pipe.

It is not until this moment that Li Cheng clearly sees that the valve itself has 500 rotations, 490 of which have already been turned, with only the last 10 remaining.

Every turn signifies the sacrifice of two Li Chengs.

[Will it be successful this time?]

Yes.

Li Cheng struggles to turn the valve; he and Gray Rain rapidly age and crumble under the pervasive refinement of the time anomaly around them, turning into ashes.

Every time the loop starts, Li Cheng would always notice and wonder about the ash with the aura of the Insect Lord Demon.

The still-young Zhao Zijing from Team B tries to step forward but gets scorched by the anomaly, aging into the appearance of Team A’s Zhao Zijing.

The valve creaks, slowly rotating.

Ten, nine, eight.

Hair falls out, teeth drop.

Seven, six, five.

Bones fracture, back bends.

Four, three, two.

Eyesight lost, legs turn to ash.

The last rotation.

Click!

The right valve is completely shut, the surrounding dispersed time anomaly first hesitates, then rapidly expands.

The golden energy flow sweeps through the entire grass, over the bismuth yellow, past Cliff, past Mithril, reaching the highway at the end of the grass.

Immediately, it rebounds abruptly, retracting back into the gap.

Just like the universe, first exploding and expanding, then contracting and retracing, returning to the origin.

Utter silence.

As if a second had passed, or as if countless years had, Li Cheng slowly opens his eyes, and he and Gray Rain stand unharmed on the ground, with the pipe beside them no longer leaking.

The Mystery Lock, broken.